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I Obviously Read And Adore Traditional Fiction. I Teach Traditional Fiction; I Also Teach All Kinds Of Not-so-traditional Fiction.

I Used To Have A Really Sharp Memory. And Its Loss Has Proven Destabilizing From An Identity Perspective.

When You Are Expending Much Energy On Someone Else's Demise, It's Like You Weaken Your Psychic Immune System.

People Don't Hijack Planes Anymore Because That Old System Of Hijacking In Order To Barter For A Prison Release Or Get To A Different Country No Longer Works, Exactly, Because 9/11 Recoded The Hostage's Interpretation Of A Hijack. If A Hijacker Isn't Trying To Use The Plane As A Missile, Then He Is In Danger Of Being Killed By The Hostages. There Is No Minor Terror Threat Anymore. No Mid-level Terrorism.

I Calmed Myself By Walking Into My Nearby Bookstore And Marveling At All The Books Other People Had Written. So Many People Had Finished And Published Novels; It Couldn’t Be So Hard, Right?